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Author: Fiona Munro

Citizens of an Omaha, Nebraska community were shocked Tuesday when Roger and Mary Brumback, pathology professors at Creighton University Medical School, were found dead in their home. According to police, a piano mover who arrived at the Brumback’s house on…

Russian artist Sergey Balovin has been living in Shanghai, China for the past several years completely broke. How does he survive? Instead of having customers pay for paintings, he asks for a trade of food, other necessities, or items of…

The University of Illinois hit a milestone this year with a record-breaking number of applicants for the second year in a row. The U of I set a record of 31,454 applicants last year, but broke it again when 33,178…

NPR’s “Three Minute Fiction” puts a new spin on the term “short story.” This program allows anyone living in the United States to submit a short story that can be read in under three minutes. The stories respond to prompts…

A week of bombings and violence continues with an explosion in a third-floor coffee shop in Baghdad Thursday night around 10 p.m. At least 27 people were killed and 51 were injured, said city police officials. Four children were…

Mixed martial arts fighter Fallon Fox came out as a transgender woman on March 5th after a telephone call from a reporter who had discovered her transgender status. In an interview with Outsports’ Cyd Zeigler, Fox – who has competed…

It’s the that time of year again when grades “inexplicably” drop. Around winter break, some students hit the point where they just can’t keep their grades up anymore. On semester report cards, while around 60 percent of students averaged A…

The winter weather has been especially strange all across Illinois this year. Despite predictions in November that we were going to have an average winter, it’s been oddly warm; until now, that is. Suddenly, on January 20th, the temperature dropped,…

Fans of social media have an interesting time ahead of them, as Facebook hits the peak of its popularity and starts getting some serious competition from Twitter. Launched in 2004, Facebook now reportedly has more than a billion users from…